Ashley-Dallas County ArArchives Biographies.....Wozencraft, Winfred L. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/arfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Robert Sanchez http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006574 July 18, 2009, 2:51 pm Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922) W1NFRED L. WOZENCRAFT. Winfred L. Wozencraft has worked his way steadily upward to a position of prominence in business circles, being now secretary and manager of the Hamburg Lumber Company at Hamburg, one of the large concerns of its kind in the state. He is a native son of Arkansas, his birth occurring at Holly Springs, Dallas county, on the 15th of December, 1888, a son of R. L. and Martha Jane (Shankles) Wozencraft. On the paternal side he is descended from Welsh ancestry. R. L. Wozencraft was born in Dallas county, to which county his parents had come in 1859. They originally made their home in Georgia. Upon attaining manhood R. L. Wozencraft entered the ministry and for many years he was pastor of the Methodist church in the Little Rock conference at various places. His demise occurred in 1897, at the age of thirty-six years. Three brothers of the Rev. R. L. Wozencraft—M. L., J. G. and W. T.—fought in the Civil war and J. G. gave his life in the cause of the Confederacy. In 1886, in Dallas county, occurred the marriage of R. L. Wozencraft to Miss Martha Jane Shankles, a native of that county, and to their union four children were born, two boys and two girls, all of whom are living. Winfred, whose name introduces this review, was the oldest child. Mrs. Wozencraft survives her husband and is making her home in Holly Springs. In the acquirement of an education Winfred Wozencraft attended the rural schools of Dallas county and later entered the Henderson-Brown College at Arkadelphia. He was graduated from that institution in 1912, with the B. S. degree and was also honored with a degree in music, having been a student in the vocal department. During the last three years of his college education he paid his own tuition, teaching in the rural schools of Dallas county in the summer vacations and attending school In the winter. For three years he was identified with the A. B. Banks Company of Fordyce, in the insurance department. Following this he returned to college for one year. After his graduation in 1912, he accepted the position of invoice clerk for the Crossett Lumber Company of Crossett, this state, and worked his way up to assistant bookkeeper. In the fall of 1918 he resigned his position to enter the service of the United States government. In that same year he was sent, as resident auditor of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, to Pascagoula, Jackson county, Mississippi, and remained there during the war. In January, 1919, he returned to Arkansas and became associated with the Hamburg Lumber Company, with which concern he has since been identified. In March, 1919, he was made secretary and manager of the compauy and is discharging the duties of those offices to the best of his ability and to the complete satisfaction of the higher officials of the concern. The Hamburg Lumber Company was organized in June, 1917. It has an enormous business and ships its products all over that part of the country east of the Rocky Mountains. Mr. Wozencraft is a stockholder in the Tippy Lumber Company of Fountain Hill, this state; in the Employes Investment Company at Crossett; the East Arkansas Lumber Company of Little Rock; the Builders Material Corporation at Little Rock, and the Home Life Accident Company of Fordyce. He has been a close student along the line of his business, has made himself familiar with the condition of the country and its business prospects and his sound judgment of men and affairs constitutes one of the chief forces of his success. It was on the 19th of April, 1916, that Mr. Wozencraft was united in marriage to Miss Dorothy Stanley, a daughter of J. R. Stanley of Alexandria, Louisiana. To their union two children have been born: one who died in infancy, and Stanley Hewett, aged ten months. Mrs. Wozencraft is one of the well-known young matrons of Hamburg and takes an active and prominent part in the club and social life here. The religious faith of Mr. and Mrs. Wozencraft is that of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and for some time Mr. Wozencraft has been a member of the board of stewards and assistant Sunday school superintendent. Fraternally he is identified with Crossett Lodge, No. 576, A. F. & A. M. of Crossett; Olive Chapter, No. 12, Royal Arch Masons of Hamburg, and Crossett Council, Royal & Select Masters. He is past worshipful master of Crossett Lodge, No. 576. and for two years was high priest of Crossett Chapter, No. 123, Royal Arch Masons. He is at present high priest of Olive Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Hamburg. He is likewise affiliated with Crossett Lodge, No. 303, Order of the Eastern Star, and was worthy patron of that order at Crossett for two years. Although the greater part of Mr. Wozencraft's time has been devoted to his business affairs, still his aid can always be counted upon to further any movement for the material and moral progress of the city and for its upbuilding and the exploitation of its resources and opportunities. The progressive steps in his life are easily discernible and each forward move has brought him a broader outlook and wider opportunities. He has never left anything to chance, but has labored to acquaint himself with every phase of the business with which he has been connected and thus has gradually advanced to the prominent position which he occupies as a representative of lumber interests in Arkansas. Additional Comments: Citation: Centennial History of Arkansas Volume II Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1922 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/ashley/bios/wozencra252bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/arfiles/ File size: 6.1 Kb